MySQL Query Analyzer: Finds good code, gone bad

In my 14 years in development I learned that outside of poor schema design, nothing drains the performance of an application more than poorly performing SQL code. Even code that ran well on day one of production would sometimes come back to bite at the worst possible times. Even worse, as a DBA I was consistently asked to bail out a development team that was either tuning their code before the rush to production or that was trying to finger code that had fallen victim to a dropped or changed index. Never fun.

As a Product Manager with MySQL I have learned from meeting with friends/customers that this experience hasn't really changed much since I left the field. I hear things like:

- MySQL is not well instrumented for tracking code level performance metrics
- Logs are OK, but not centralized and too low-level for easy navigation
- We need help identifying "good code gone bad" and "bad code gone worse"

To these friends I say we have listened (and will continue to) and help is on the way! My team has been busy working on the new MySQL Query Analyzer that will ship as part of the Enterprise Monitor a little later this year. Just a few bullets on what it does and what you can do with it.

Cool things it does:
- Proactive collection and identification of problematic SQL code.
- Historical browsing/analysis of queries across all servers.
- Aggregated roll ups of all queries in canonical form (no variables).
- Fully qualified views of worst performing statements.
- Drill downs into query details, number of executions, execution stats

These things are baked into the Monitor to help:
- Tune your SQL code before it is promoted to production
- Quickly identify queries that are sapping performance
-- by query type, content, server or application user
- Once problematic code is surfaced you can:
-- view an EXPLAIN plan to see where you need indexes

Here's a screenshot of the Monitor with Quan enabled:



We are currently working with a few "friendlies" on the first beta, but plan to open things for general beta soon. Stay tuned (no pun intended...), more details to follow on how you can help with this.